Future Truths

truths for the future: 42

the things you are eager to return to are not what they once were.
they never are.

truths for the future: 41

are they having a different experience (better, truer, more sane)
or are they only using different words to describe it? different words, and just like you after all?

truths for the future: 40

you will finally realize why some people remain friends with their exes.
or
you will finally realize why all ties must be cut.

truths for the future: 39

it won't be you anymore. it will be them.
don't underestimate how much freedom there will be in that.

truths for the future: thirty-eight

(a guest truth from a beloved futurist) "don't get your hopes up," they say. "expect nothing." but what good is a hopeless, expectationless existence?

truths for the future: thirty-seven

self-deprecation is not as attractive as you think. not as enacted by egotists anyway. (are you one? do you think you are beyond such things?
best to steer clear, you will never know for sure.)

truths for the future: thirty-six

maybe you're not as nice as you think.
maybe you're not nice at all. how much time wasted on goodness and regrets!
how much time devoted to avoiding mistakes!
how much more relaxed the worst version of you could have been!

truths for the future: thirty-five

you hope too easily. that will be the problem. not the hope, but the quickness to it.